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the color that couldn't decide between blue and green, so it stole both
means A medium blue-green color, sitting between blue and green on the spectrum.
from The color is named after the bird — the teal, a small freshwater duck with a striking blue-green stripe near its eye. The duck's name came first, an English word dating back centuries (and possibly imitative of its piping call), and only much later, around the early 20th century, did people start using 'teal' for the shade itself. So the color borrowed its name from a bird that wore it best.
- named after
- a small dabbling duck with a colored eye stripe
- hex code
- 008080, half cyan and half black
- corporate favorite
- signals calm trust without committing to a feeling
- web origins
- one of sixteen original HTML named colors
- on screens
- made by mixing equal green and blue light
for instance
pantone 16-1546 teal — pantone's official color of the year for 2024
teal duck — anas crecca, a small dabbling duck found across northern hemisphere with iridescent teal head